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Option C - Lead poisoning?

XOP is what I use for a lightweight "portable" "mobile" stand. Basically a Lone Wolf type stand but made in china and cost a lot less. My steel milleniums are "hang and leave" stands. They are more cumbersome for hang and hunts but are a little bigger/more comfortable than XOP if it's not going...

Where is it moving to? Is it still useful to us there when it comes to growing food?

Could also see tillage termination of some herbicide resistant weeds relieving some herbicide use. Kills weeds before they go to seed and any re growth might be more susceptible to herbicide when less mature or require less specialized herbicide? Just spitballin..

Seems like the question is how working the ground and assisting more existing weed seed to germinate offsets the benefit of tillage killing weeds that have already germinated. I don't know ag processes well but it seems tillage might be somewhat of an alternative to additional burn down...

Yep. Grant woods planting two diverse blends a year that are best suited to the seasons is a far cry from a single monoculture crop that leaves the dirt without living roots for extended periods of time. I thought conventional wisdom is that increased chemical use should be expected for no-till...

And a throw pillow..

Yep! wife said “I can feel the bed shaking from you trying to contain your laughter, better send me that one”

No? Sounds like they decided against giving away market value just because family couldn’t afford or didn’t want to pay market value.

Yes

But straight wall is a new thing (which you’re obviously familiar). I heard Steve Hansen on the Land podcast recently indicating he thought they and all the other technology may be contributing some to the overall decline in quality that even IA is seeing over the past couple decades. A 350...

I don't "blame" locals or NR for the way things are, its just human nature. But i sure like it when states fight to keep quality hunting for their residents of all economic classes vs selling it to he with the most $. Don't necessarily disagree with a lot of points in favor of NR landowners...

Typical spring mucky fields at my place and getting worse.

I think that's more with perennial clover though? I wonder if an annual would compete as heartily.